US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on July 21 for "Extended fabrication-aware convolution learning framework for predicting 3D shape deformation in additive manufacturing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,836, issued on July 21, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Extended fabrication-aware convolution learning framework for predicting 3D shape deformation in additive manufacturing" was invented by Qiang Huang (Los Angeles), Yuanxiang Wang (Los Angeles) and Cesar Ruiz Torres (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method is provided for predicting 3D shape deformation in additive manufacturing. A convolution learning framework for shape deviation modeling provides joint learning for a wide class of 3D shapes including both spherical and polyhedral shapes. A 3D cookie-cutter f...